Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years

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Название: Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years

Автор: Robert J. Wenke

Издательство: Oxford University Press

Год: 2007

ISBN: 0-19-516928-X

Формат: PDF

Размер: 17.3 MB

Язык: English

Страниц: 641

Patterns in Prehistory, Fifth Edition, is a comprehensive and engaging survey of humanity's past three million years. It brings together theories and archaeological examples to pose questions about who we are and the means by which humanity evolved into what it is today.

Ideal for introductory courses in world prehistory and origins of complex societies, Patterns in Prehistory, Fifth Edition, offers a unified and thematic approach to the four great transformations--or patterns--that characterize humanity's past: the origins and evolution of culture; the origins of modern humans and human behaviors; the origins of agriculture; and the origins of complex societies, civilizations, and pre-industrial states. Integrating theoretical approaches with archaeological data from the Middle East, Mesoamerica, North and South America, Egypt, China, the Indus Valley, and temperate Europe, Patterns in Prehistory, Fifth Edition, reveals how archaeologists decipher the past.